Necktie



Patented Apr. l8, I899.

W. E. MBKEE.

N E GK T I E.

' (Application filed Sept. 28, 1898.)

(No Model.)

llNrrn STATES ATENT 'QFFICE.

VILLIAM E. MOKEE, OF SPRINGFIELD, BIASSACHUSE'FS.

NECKTIE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 623,378, dated April 18, 1899.

Application filed September 28, 1898- Serial No. 692,082. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM E. MOKEE, a citizen of the United States of America, re-

.siding at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Neckties, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to neckties, and more particularly to those adapted to mens use, the object being to provide an improved tie of this class in respect to economy of production and simplicity of construction; and the invention consistsin the peculiar arrangement and construction and means for connecting the parts of the tie, all as hereinafter fully set forth, and more particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings forming part of this specification, Figure l is a perspective view, partly in'section, of a necktie embodying my invention. Fig. 2 illustrates a front central section of the outer sides of the neckband of the tie and of the bow-holding band thereon and the bow of the tie partially folded. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the inner sides of said front central section of the neckband and of said bow-holding hand, these two parts being shown in different positions from those illustrated in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a sectional view on line 4 4, Fig. 1, showing the parts of the tie at that point somewhat enlarged. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the tie, illustrating a modified construction of the devices employed for securing the tie around the neck as compared with that shown in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 2 indicates the neckband of the tie, which, as shown in Fig. 1, has a buttonhole 3 in each extremity thereof for buttoning the same to the rear button of the neckband of a shirt or other button occupying a like position. Opposite to said buttonholes 3 at the front of said band is a perforation 4, Fig. 3, which serves 'a purpose below set forth.

Fig. 5 illustrates other devices for connecting the rear ends of the neckband than the buttonholes 3, (shown in Fig. 1,) and said devices consist of a hook 5, connected by a flexible strap 6 to one extremity of said band, and a ring 7, connected to the opposite extremity of said band by an elastic strap 8,

a slide-buckle 9 being interposed between said ring and the end of the band, whereby further adjustment of the length of said strap 8 may be effected, if required.

The bow-holder 10 of the necktie consists of a strip of material folded into box-like form, having its extremities perferablylaid one upon the other, as shown, and stitched or cemented (or otherwise fastened) one upon the other, thereby forming one side (the inner one) of double or of such thickness as conduces to maintain the same more permanently in proper form to serve the purpose below described. Said bow-holder has a button-receiving opening 12 through its double inner side, which when the holder is in position on the neckband 2, as in Figs. 2 and 4, registers with said hole 4 in the latter, thus forming a socket to receive the head of a button 13, worn in the front side of the neckband of a shirt, whereby the front part of the necktie is retained in position or' held from sliding upward on said neckband, the latter and said last-named button being shown in dotted lines in Fig. 4 and there indicated, respectively, by 58 and 2'. It will be seen by Fig.4 that the said two thicknesses of mate- 4 rial forming the inner side or wall of said bow-holder and indicated in Figs. 3 and 4 by a and the adjoining thickness of the part of the neckband 2 of the tie receive the head of said button in said perforations 12 and 4 therein, as aforesaid.

The bow 14 consists of a strip of material .15, of proper width and thickness, having its extremities suitably shaped and having, as shown in Fig. 2, two suitable transverse slots 6 formed in the opposite edges thereof, each extending to a point about midway between the borders of the strip, as shown, said slots being of a width about equal to the thickness of the material, to the end that the unslotted parts of the strip opposite the base of each slot may be so inserted each into the other, as shown in Fig. 2, that the bow-strip may then be compressed, whereby the parts of the strip, as arranged in Fig. 2, are caused to take the complete bow formshown in Figs. 1 and 5. By holding the parts of one endof the bow closely together side by side they are easily inserted between the outside of the bow-holder 10 and the adjoining part of the neckband 2, and the bow can be then drawn into the band to the finished position shown in Fig. 5.

The preferable material for the construction of the band, bow, and bow-holder of the necktie is a stiff white or colored paper treated in a well-known manner with a rubber solution, whereby it is nonabsorbent of moisture and retains its form; but, if preferred, textile material properly stiffened may be employed. Also sheet-celluloid may be advantageously used, because of its firmness, flexibility, and the facility with which it may be cleaned. By reason of the said slotted feature of the parts 0 0 of said bow in the rear of the face portion 0 thereof such folding of the bowstrap is provided for as brings the borders of all the parts of the completed bow into corresponding alinement, and with the further result that the central part of the bow, which is engaged by the bow-holder, consists of only three thicknesses of material, whereby it is conveniently received in and held by said holder.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A necktie com prisin ga neckband, means on the extremities of said band for securing the same around the neck of the wearer, combined with a bow-holder surrounding said band and a bow also engaged by said holder consisting of a single strip of material having interlocking slotted portions back of the face thereof, whereby the borders of all the parts of the same are brought to correspondingaline ment, substantially as described.

2. A necktie comprising a nec kband,means on the extremities of said band for securing the same around the neck of the wearer and having a perforation therethrough at a central point between said extremities, combined with abow-holder surrounding said band having a perforation in its rear wall correspond ing to, and registering with, said band-perforation, the two forming a button-head socket, and a folded bow consisting of a single strip of material having interlocking portions back of the face thereof, and said bow being interposed between the front wall of said bowholder and the said perforated central portion oflsaid band, substantially as described.

' WILLIAM E. MCKEE.

' lVitnesses:

' H. A. CHAPIN,

K. I. OLEMoNs. 

